"Go to the Foot of the Cross"

A priest I knew when I was a child always used to say, “On Fridays, go to the foot of the cross.” He would repeat this literally every Friday.

It was really a quite profound thing to think about. We all have crosses in our own lives that we need to carry. Every week it is important to take some time to think about Him whose example we are called to follow in bearing those crosses.

The mysteries of the passion and death of Christ are at the center of our faith as Christians. There is no escaping the cross, for without it there would be no point to Christianity. You can’t have Christ without the cross.

In the last days and hours of Jesus, He experienced many of the emotions that we are faced with at various times in our life. He was betrayed, and He felt abandoned, totally alone in the world. He knew sorrow, loneliness, pain, all those things we experience and find so hard to bear.

I just want to ask you today, to take some time to reflect on that. Think about your own life, what situations you are facing there. Then take that situation, and go to the foot of the cross.